A Complete Vegan Meal Prep Guide

Are you all fired up to eat better, improve your body and contribute your bit to making the world a better place for everyone? We can help you with a Complete Vegan Meal Prep Guide

Congratulations, turning into a vegan means half the distance is already covered in achieving your aim. To reach the end now’s the time for you to get more disciplined, have all those Meals Planned well in advance.

Meal planning ensures that you eat well-balanced meals and snacks to meet daily requirements for minerals including iron, zinc, calcium, vitamin D, vitamin B12, and omega-3 fatty acids, among others.

We can bet that you will see a major lifestyle difference that you will never want to look back on an unplanned vegan routine ever again. Before we get there, let’s get you to understand why should you even consider prepping for your vegan meals.

Why to Vegan Meal Prep?

While going Vegan surely has its many benefits and at the same time aims to improve your lifestyle and habits, it can sometimes be troublesome when it comes down to preparing your meals. Despite the daunting task meal planning may turn to be, it still should be taken up so that you go a long way in your vegan journey.

Meal planning in advance should therefore be the “chore to your to-do list” that tops your list. Check out a few reasons why one should plan all the meals in advance:

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  1. Number One: Time Saver

Grocery stores can be real magnets that pull you towards them. Without realizing it, you tend to waste your time when you aimlessly wander around looking for groceries when you don’t follow any plan. Meal planning then comes to your rescue.

Meal planning in advance is all about knowing the right ingredients for your meals and the right quantity that will suffice. Therefore, this saves you from wasting your time thinking, shopping, and preparing for all your delicious vegan meals.

  1. Improves Your Overall Nutritional Intake

While a vegan diet is a powerhouse of benefits in itself, an improper unplanned vegan diet can backfire and cause nutritional deficiencies.

Meal planning lets you nutritionally balance all the meals well throughout the week. From essential vitamins to proteins, all your nutritional intake can be taken care of with a great meal plan.

  1. Saves Your Money

Meal prepping in advance takes care of those leftover ingredients in your fridge. It also saves you from unnecessarily spending your money on a dozen of random food items, most of which you won’t even be consuming. It also saves you from spending extra on last-minute ordering.

  1. Acts as a Real Energy Conserver

Those repetitive questions “What should I make for breakfast? What ingredients do I need for preparing lunch? and dinner? ” plaque your mind can be more damaging for your body than you think. Meal prepping takes away the week’s stress and lets you relish your dishes instead.

How to Vegan Meal Prep For A Healthy Week?

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Are you ready to create a vegan meal plan of your own? Here are a few more ways to help you get started.

  1. Dive In For Batch Cooking

Vegan Batch Cooking is THE method to remove the stress out of meal planning, and it’s without a doubt the most crucial tip of all. You can make batches of a few recipes you enjoy. You’ll have enough food for the week and won’t have to worry about what to make.

For example, you can even make large batches of your favourite meals or vegan spreads, such as Chia pudding for breakfast or hummus, and keep them in the fridge overnight, ready to eat in the morning!

  1. Plan Your Week’s Meals Over The Weekends

It may sound boring but trust us, it is quite effective to write a meal plan for the week and prepare a grocery list as per your meals and servings. Once that is done, you can go on and fill your cupboards with the right ingredients so that you never come back home to empty cupboards.

If you plan out what you’ll eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day of the week before even the start of the week, it would take away a lot of the stress out of cooking and ensure that you’ll never go hungry!

To find out some healthy vegan options for making your meal plans fun, check out Plantiful.

  1. Use an App for Meal Planning

Gone are the days of picking out recipes from a cookbook and making a grocery list on a post-it note. A variety of Vegan apps are now available that take away the hassle of meal prepping from you. Plant-based meal planners can be quite beneficial when it comes to planning, shopping, and preparing vegan meals.

Meal Planning can be stressful when it comes down to finding the right recipes and then creating the shopping list. We, at Plantiful, aim to make it easier for you by handpicking diverse tempting recipes that can easily be cooked in advance.

5 Days Work Week Meal Plan With Plantiful

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Whether you’re a newly turned vegan who is confused about where to start from or an old longtime vegan ready to shake up your old vegan routine to try something new, including better nutrition to your meal plans, finding easy-to-make vegan recipes, etc. Plantiful’s 5 Day Work Week Meal Plan is just perfect for everyone!

All you need to do is go on the Plantiful app and from the different meal plans available, select the Work Week Meal plan. You can then access our diverse meal recipes, schedule your week, get acquainted with the recipes in the meal, and generate a shopping list based on the days you select for the plan. Plantiful automatically creates a grocery shopping list for you based on the servings you want to prepare your meals for.

Don’t waste more time, check out our Work Week Plan today!

Written by

Andreea Matei

Hi, I'm Andreea Matei, one of the founders. Calling me a foodie would be an understatement. I wholeheartedly embrace life through the realm of taste. My kitchen experiments are my superpower. For me, amazing food encompasses three dimensions: it must be crazy delicious, nutritious, and mindful of our animal friends and beautiful planet.